The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
the present day, providing a contemporary perspective on a centuries-old Buddhist model
Model Sporting Boat ca. 1981–1975 B.C.
Research Assistant Jeffrey Fraiman sits down with scholar James M. Saslow to discuss Michelangelo’s practice as a poet, the meaning of his gift drawings, and the study of the artist’s homoeroticism since his death in 1564.
works on paper by Michelangelo, including quick sketches, figure drawings after the model
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
object-based curatorial department of its kind in the United States, ESDA was a model
Initially trained as a lawyer, Matisse developed an interest in art only at age twenty-one.
distinctive series of pen-and-ink drawings on the subject of the artist and his model
The later Valois kings, who unified France and strengthened its power after the Hundred Years’ War, frequently engaged in diplomacy and warfare in Italy; exposure to Italian art gradually formed their taste.
indicative of the esteem in which Pilon was held in his own time, the terracotta model
This exhibition combines drawings, prints, and objects from all over Europe and the United States as they were collected by the Metropolitan Museum over a period of more than a hundred years.
For example: a sketch by one artist can serve as the model for another’s design,
With her small eyes, high cheeks, and low brow, the model recalls Marie von Goethem
This exhibition brings together some thirty objects from across the Museum and from local private collections to highlight the second generation of the Pre-Raphaelites, focusing on the key figures Edward Burne-Jones, William Morris, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
Rossetti balanced such imagery with more spiritualized conceptions inspired by his model
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
the present day, providing a contemporary perspective on a centuries-old Buddhist model
